Starship prompt

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Starship prompt, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 9 complaints

Config options are hard to figure out; documentation gives the commenter headaches2026-01-10
Default prompt shows unwanted language versions and AWS region; setup took 30 minutes2026-01-10
Prompt slows the shell to a crawl on Windows via MSYS22025-06-24
Website gives no clear explanation of why someone would use the product2025-06-24
Found it too cluttered ("extra") and sluggish to use a few years ago2025-06-24
Icons smudge meaning and make the prompt hard to scan for migraine sufferers2025-06-24
Prompt is unbearably slow, with half-second delays on simple commands2024-01-26
Homepage doesn't explain benefits, pushes install before showing value2020-07-27
All plugins enabled by default, flooding the prompt with unwanted information2020-07-27